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A Change Is Coming To The Server Room
AMD’s subsequent era of server chip, EPYC Genoa might be accessible in just over two weeks. These Zen 4 primarily based chips will supply quite a lot of new options that sysadmins will recognize, reminiscent of the flexibility to make use of DDR5 reminiscence in as much as 12 channels. The brand new chips may even supply PCIe Gen5, related to the brand new 6096-pin SP5 socket which might be launched on the similar time.
The naming conventions of the processors have modified, although fortunately not it the identical means AMD proposed to change their desktop lineup. Additionally, you will want to pay attention to their energy necessities, as EPYC Genoa will vary from a TDP of 260W as much as 360W. Assuming that the leaks have been correct, the lineup will vary from a 200W, 16 core, 32 thread EPYC 9124 working at 2.60 GHz to 2.70 GHz with 64MB of L3 cache as much as the large EPYC 9754 with 128 cores and 256 threads, all working between 2.0 GHz to 2.15 GHz, It will likely be nicely endowed with 384MB of L3 cache, however you’ll need to cope with a 360W TDP.
The EPYC Genoa chips are anticipated to include 12 chiplets, every comprised of eight Zen 4 cores. The decrease finish SKUs is not going to have all these chiplets enabled, although they may nonetheless help all of the options of the excessive finish SKUs.
